The Third Annual Expozine Alternative Press Awards!

Six prizes were awarded (three in English and three in French), recognizing the best book, comic and zine sold at Expozine. The winners were chosen by an esteemed panel of judges out of the hundreds of publications submitted at Expozine in November.

THE WINNERS

A superb small press work, in terms of design, in terms of concept, in terms of content (both artistic and journalistic), and in terms of a truly collective effort carried out with minimal funding and time constraints.

ZINE

The Bedrooms of the Nation by Michelle Sterling

The best erotic contribution to Canadiana non-fiction since Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers.

THE JUDGES

COMICS

Jamie Salomon is a long-time comics aficionado who previously published local comics under the Copacetic Comics and Crunchy Comics imprints. He is currently the controller for Drawn and Quarterly.

BOOKS

Vincent Tinguely is a Montreal writer and performance poet.

ZINES

Onya Hogan-Finlay is an artist and organizer based in Montreal. She is the co-founder of the projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project and a member of the Third Leg collective.

Expozine is organized by Arcmtl, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving local independent culture, and is made possible in part thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, SODEC and the Conseil des Arts de Montréal.